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i am a good resource for people thinking about quitting their phone (to regain control of your attention), or quitting their job (to regain control of your time and bet on yourself). which is weird because quitting is the opposite of persistence, and i consider persistence to be one of my greatest strengths. so it's sort of ironic. but it can also be reconciled. persistence is invaluable when you are persisting on the right things but persisting on the wrong things is one of the worst mistake...

I went for a run this afternoon. It ended at the park down the street. The one with the tennis courts and the basketball hoops. Three miles at a nine minute pace. Well, nine minutes and two seconds, to be exact. I always feel guilty rounding up. And by “up”, I mean, to the better number. In this case, it’s technically rounding down. I got a drink of water from the fountain. It’s a good working water fountain – nice pressure, strong stream, clean, cold water. You can tell a lot about a town by...

It’s Wednesday, late afternoon. I haven’t consumed a calorie nor checked my mobile device since Sunday night. I am nearing the end of a 3 day fasting period. I’m doing two fasts at once – no food, and no phone. I’ve done these fasts separately before, but never at the same time. I’ve also never fasted from food for quite this long before. I had done a 60 hour fast before — that’s dinner to breakfast with 2 full days between. This time it will be 72 hours dinner to dinner. I’m about 70 hours i...

Some people swear that the secret to life is saying “yes” to everything. Others argue with the same vigor that the key is to say “no” to everything. It is easy to dismiss both sides as exaggerated or extreme. But I believe there are people on both sides who genuinely believe what they are promoting. Their beliefs most likely reflect their lived experience. They started saying "yes" to everything, or "no" to everything, and it worked. It changed their life. Another example like this is carnivo...

I am excited to announce a new podcast in addition to my existing podcast (Pod of Jake), which I plan to continue unaffected. The new one is called Purple People. For this podcast, I will be having conversations with some of the most interesting people on Farcaster. The only criteria is that the guest is on Farcaster. So I expect the guests and our conversations to be as wide-ranging as the people on Farcaster and their interests. Of course, there are certain areas of interest such as crypto ...

I don’t know what it’s like to be a great founder. But it seems to me that there is some significant sacrifice required during the achiev...

I think there's something to be said for when it's hard to explain "what" you do. The most common paths and careers are the easiest to explain. "I'm ...

WHAT DAY OF YOUR LIFE IS TODAY? I write that number down next to the day’s date whenever I write in my morning journal. It’s an easy way to keep life in perspective. Over the years, whenever I go a while between journal entries, I need to look that number up again. I feel like it’s always a different site, and I’ve never found one I particularly liked, so yesterday I decided to make one myself. What day of your life is today? Find out now @ dayof.life

With crypto, digital assets are trivial to transfer, perpetually marked to market, and instantly liquid. The combination of these three traits brings us back to a future of bartering in the sense that you will ultimately be able to pay for anything with any of your digital assets, as long as they are of the right value. In traditional bartering, both sides have to be interested in what the other has to offer, but that is no longer the case. With crypto, there is a free, instant, and automated...